Screening and Discussion of Les Petits Chats with the Attendance of Director Sherif Nakhla at Zawya Cinema

Screening and Discussion of Les Petits Chats with the Attendance of Director Sherif Nakhla at Zawya Cinema

Last Sunday, MAD Solutions held the screening of director Sherif Nakhla's rockumentary Les Petits Chats at Zawya Cinema. With the attendance of star Ramsi Lehner, the screening was followed by a discussion with the film's director about the different stages of making the film. The film has been released at VOX Cinemas, Mall of Egypt for one week until Tuesday, the 4th of April.

Directed and produced by Sherif Nakhla, the film is named after the legendary band Les Petits Chats of the cherished era of the 60's and 70's. The six members, who are now major celebrities and musicians, were reunited to perform one last time in a night to remember in spring 2010. Les Petits Chats film provides an insight into the lives of the former bandmates during their glory days and answers the questions evoked within each one of them by tracing their present lives and life choices since their breakup in the 80's. The film showcases interviews with major celebrities and cinema stars at that time and nowadays including: Ezzat Abu Ouf, Omar Khairat, Sobhi Bedeir, Samir Sabri and Mohamed Salmawy.

Les Petits Chats has landed its world premiere at the 18th Arabian Sights Film Festival for Contemporary Arab Cinema in Washington, DC in 2015, where the film received a nomination for the Arabian Sights Jury Prize. Within its premiere, the film captivated the audiences and the "full-house" signs were raised during its two screenings. The film also took part in several international film festivals, including the Cascade Festival of African Films in Portland, USA, the Silk Road Film Festival in Dublin, Ireland and the Arab Cinema Week in New York.

His first work after graduation was a short film called Miraculum (2006) discussing the taboo topic of a Muslim/Christian teenage love stories -an issue deliberately left out of public dialogue. This film participated in more than 25 international film festivals, winning three awards including the Best Sociopolitical Film at the New York Independent International Film Festival. In 2009, Nakhla began working on his first feature documentary Les Petits Chats, and he is currently in the process of making his first feature film.